It's been a while since my last post but I do have a lot of new designs that I will be posting in the near future. I wanted to share an animation I created using TurboCAD 16 Deluxe, but the file is too big to post , so please use the link below to view. It is a set of concentric hyperbolic structures that are copied and rotated to create the animation. I included some falling spheres of water to enhance the show. It is a series of 1,748 jpeg files created by changing the design 1 degree at a time and saving to a jpeg file. The animation is set to music using Windows Live Movie Make. I hope you enjoy it.

But, boy, are you a masochist? Life is too short to spend this amount of effort on something that you can let your PC do for you, while you are asleep, or doing something more useful

Programmes like Animation Lab. (that's a plug), are made to take the drudgery out of this work. Treat yourself, and then allow us to see what else you can do, without you becoming a slave to your keyboard and mouse! Animation Lab. will generate all the images you require, but use something else for assembling anything >2GB. I would guess your work was originally considerably larger than this.

I am sure you are aware of this, but, it will do no harm to repeat it here. Capturing, or using too many images/second may be counterproductive, because the resources available for rendering the animation, may produce a slightly jerky image, which might improve with fewer images. It's a balance between quality and smoothness. Anyway, just a thought.

I hope you will get cracking with something else, when you can find the time. Thank you for sharing.

I have one question though - if you don't suffer during the creative process, is it really art?

Ah!, well, as I see it, some art is in avoiding the suffering, as much as possible, during the realisation process.That's probably why I suffered the learning curve of TC and Animation Lab. and can now sit back and let them do the work for me - if you see what I mean. The creative process is another matter!

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Anyway, I may reach out to you for some advice when I get Animation Lab reinstalled. I feel a new animation in my near future.